Nash Gretton was an easy master to work for; indeed he, along with his wife, were perhaps the only two people, apart from his eldest brother, who knew why she worked as a housekeeper in the rural domesticity of Rutland. It took all her powers of persuasion to get Perry to agree to let Nash and Felicity know the whole story of why she was there. Felicity was her cousin, and Nash Perry's brother, so as far as Maggie was concerned if they weren't to be trusted who could she have faith in? Eventually, Perry acquiesced. Even so, the vicar wasn't privy to the necessary information to enable him to understand why Maggie begged for his help to procure her the position. If you asked him, he would say he got Maggie the job as she'd fallen on hard times. She spared a moment's thought for Frederick Lennon, her distant cousin, and vicar to the parish. No relation to Felicity, thankfully, the poor man still had no idea just how they duped him into helping Maggie. It had been imperative to move her from their home before she could be used as a lever against her lover, and to be Nash's housekeeper seemed the perfect disguise.
